Have
you or a relative previously worked in pits in any of the
following areas?
Fishburn,
Murton,
Craghead, Easington, South Hetton, Blackhill, Willington, Brancepeth,
Brandon, Thirslington, West Cornforth, Haswell, Stanley, Ushaw Moor,
Bearpark, Cassop Vale, Quarrington, Quaking Houses, Thornley, Shotton.
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Interactive Map of Ushaw Moor
Ushaw
Moor is an
ex-coal mining village three miles west of the Historic City of Durham
and a short distance to the South of Bearpark.
Parish
registers suggests that the settlement dates to a least the sixteenth
century. The village existed in a largely agricultural state, with a
windmill being its one feature up till the nineteenth century.
Ushaw
College is located to the north
of the village a Roman Catholic seminary and one of the constituent
colleges of the University of Durham. It moved to Ushaw Moor in 1808,
on the initiative of Bishop Gibson. It was originally founded at Douai
in France in 1568.
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Video
Stills From Film Harrys Half
Crown
New Photos Added To
Historic GalleryNew Photos Added To Historic Gallery Film Made in 1963
by Children from Ushaw Moor Secondary Modern School, slideshow
of stills
taken from the film. Available on Historical Gallery 7 or directly HERE
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Posted
by: ushawmoormemories
| September 1, 2009
"Well I thought
it was about time I shared my memories of growing up in Ushaw
Moor. My earliest memories of growing up in Ushaw Moor
consist mainly of Tarzan Swings exploring College woods and looking for
birds nests. As I recall I never was bored unlike a lot of the kids
today who seem constantly bored."
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Posted
by: wilfb
| August 28, 2009
"The
effects of WW2 were still evident back in the early to
middle 50s. The area at the bottom of Unthank Terrace in New
Brancepeth looked like a bomb site, but of course it was no
such thing. Quite a few people were upset that a German
goalkeeper was playing for Manchester City, however he won most of them
over; Bert Trautmann was a fine player and literally broke his neck for
City’s cause in a memorable FA Cup Final"
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